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Braneless

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most launchers are priced similar. not having any problem with the $4

Agreed. The only reason I delayed my Prime purchase was the fact that I already bought ADW Ex...which was about the same price.

For as smooth and reliable as Nova is, $4 is a reasonable price. Launchers such as SPB & TFS Shell are NOT worth their asking price (both over $10USD) - not even close.
 

XlAfbk

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another (not all fair comparison): navigation software usually costs $20+ and you use it like 2-3 times a month. launcher costs $4 and you use it every time you turn your phone on.
 
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v8rumble

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That's right, here you can buy a cup of coffe at 0.25 USD in the street.

I'm just saying that the prime key is one of the most expensive apps in the market and being created over free source code, it could be a liitle cheapier.
it's no wonder people download stuff with out paying.

You are paying for the labour involved. it takes time to program stuff.

I am missing something, or are dock backgrounds images not available with Nova?
 
Nova troubles on tablet (TF101)

I regularly have a weird situation on my tablet. When returning to the homescreen the desktops suddenly are all empty, but I can still scroll through them. The dock is visible, but can't be scrolled and you always see the same buttons, and none of them work. Going to apps to stop the nova service doesn't work, the only thing I can do is a reset.

I'm running on the newest version. Anybody else getting this on his/her tablet?
It never happens on my phone.
 

Ashley280

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Nova Lancher Help

Hello,

I am using the ROM Virtuous Inquisition and Nova Launcher with it. Every time i restart the phone or power it off it resets the home-screen to the default look removing all my icons on the home screen and the launcher bar.

This is very annoying and this post is my last resort or i am loading a new ROM.

I am using the latest Nova Launcher and the latest build of Virtuous Inquisition. My phone is a HTC Sensation.

Thanks in advance
 

Milamber33

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Have you tried wiping Nova Launcher's data or uninstalling/reinstalling?

Also, not sure if Logcat would show anything, but it might be worth posting one just after a restart to see if anything shows up.
 

Shadow-Nexus

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Hello,

I am using the ROM Virtuous Inquisition and Nova Launcher with it. Every time i restart the phone or power it off it resets the home-screen to the default look removing all my icons on the home screen and the launcher bar.

This is very annoying and this post is my last resort or i am loading a new ROM.

I am using the latest Nova Launcher and the latest build of Virtuous Inquisition. My phone is a HTC Sensation.

Thanks in advance

Dude are you retarded or something?
You should use AOKP
 

mhwarfield

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Actually, $4 is fairly moderate by Market standards...Take a look at SPB Shell, if you want to see an overpriced launcher. $15 for that piece of junk is absolutely murderous! I understand that $4US carries a different value throughout the world, and what may be expensive to some, will seem cheap to others. Unfortunately, there's no solution, since devs don't have the ability to adjust price by country or region.

As for Nova, I believe the stock launcher is under the Apache license, and therefore, is not open source. As such, no launchers written off of stock code, need to be open. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Kevin addressed this topic at some point a while ago, and I think this was the gist of his response.

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I believe you are mixing license terms here. The Apache License, specifically the Apache License 2.0 from 2004 on, is an OpenSource Initiative (OSI) recognized OpenSource License.

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0

By saying "the stock launcher is under the Apache license, and therefore, is not open source" you are incorrect. Software licensed under the Apache License is OpenSource but modifications to it are not required to be equally released as OpenSource sources. This is similar to the BSD licenses, which are also OSI recognized OpenSource licenses but which do not require others to provide the sources or to provide their modifications in OpenSource.

I believe you are thinking about the GPL, Gnu Public License, family which is not only OpenSource but also requres that any modifications WHICH YOU DISTRIBUTE to also be licensed under the GPL. It's actually more restrictive than the Apache and BSD license families, but we can get into heated religious wars over that topic. If you don't distribute your modifications, you are not generally required to provide source to them (there are some corner cases where software is utilized as a service where things get a bit gray). Even there, there are exceptions for certain kinds of linking and for collections. If stock were licensed under GPL, then all modifications to create Nova would have to be released in source form under a GPL compatible license. This is not required under the Apache License, but both are, none the less, recognized by OSI as OpenSource licenses and they are the authority in this regards.
 
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barryflanagan

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I regularly have a weird situation on my tablet. When returning to the homescreen the desktops suddenly are all empty, but I can still scroll through them. The dock is visible, but can't be scrolled and you always see the same buttons, and none of them work. Going to apps to stop the nova service doesn't work, the only thing I can do is a reset.

I'm running on the newest version. Anybody else getting this on his/her tablet?
It never happens on my phone.

Yes, I see this on my Transformer Prime running AOKP and Nova. I cleared Nova cache and data but it still happens.

Never happens on my GNex
 

Kurre

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Aug 10, 2010
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Hello,

I am using the ROM Virtuous Inquisition and Nova Launcher with it. Every time i restart the phone or power it off it resets the home-screen to the default look removing all my icons on the home screen and the launcher bar.

This is very annoying and this post is my last resort or i am loading a new ROM.

I am using the latest Nova Launcher and the latest build of Virtuous Inquisition. My phone is a HTC Sensation.

Thanks in advance







Dude are you retarded or something?
You should use AOKP

what the..are you talking about.. :mad:
Virtuous Inquisition IS ics rom afaik, so there should be no problem using it. ICS can be CM9, aokp, vanilla aosp etc..

But i can't help Ashley with this problem..could be caused by corrupted data or something like that maybe? :confused:

Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2
 

Shadow-Nexus

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what the..are you talking about.. :mad:
Virtuous Inquisition IS ics rom afaik, so there should be no problem using it. ICS can be CM9, aokp, vanilla aosp etc..

But i can't help Ashley with this problem..could be caused by corrupted data or something like that maybe? :confused:

Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2

I know virtuous Inquisition is ICS I'm just saying that AOKP is better
 

^Fs

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I would love to sort my app drawer similar to this:

Vjdi7.png


I posted this in the feature request here: http://goo.gl/dBb42

Kindly upvote if you agree with me!
 
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frenccw

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I would love to sort my app drawer similar to this:

Vjdi7.png


I posted this in the feature request here: http://goo.gl/dBb42

Kindly upvote if you agree with me!

It's a great idea. It's a bit like windows 7 phone system where its sorted by alphabet. Although i always thought you would need a massive amount of apps before you would ever need something like that though. (and if you have a massive list why not just use the search???)

Good luck with the feature request.
 

Dianoda

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Sweet

Just wanted to say thanks to the dev for a sweet launcher. I've finally moved away from CM7 to a CM9 based rom on my original evo and a friend recommended nova. Great work! Love the scrolling animation and smooth as butter compared to anything I ever had in 2.3. :D
 

jjhiza

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I would love to sort my app drawer similar to this:

Vjdi7.png


I posted this in the feature request here: http://goo.gl/dBb42

Kindly upvote if you agree with me!

To add to the previous response to your post; why don't you just use the app drawer sorting option, where you can group apps under specific tabs, and even create folders for games, productivity, etc.? It seems like that would at least be a viable work-around for you, until the specific feature you're looking for gets added... :)

Sent from my XT862 using xda premium
 

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